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Year: 1972  |  1973  |  1974  |  1975  |  1976  |  1977


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 0: Pilot

Original Air Date—16 September 1972
Gritty crime drama set in San Francisco, featuring an older, veteran cop and his younger, less experienced partner.

Season 1, Episode 1: The Thirty-Year Pin

Original Air Date—23 September 1972

Season 1, Episode 2: The First Day of Forever

Original Air Date—30 September 1972

Season 1, Episode 3: 45 Minutes from Home

Original Air Date—7 October 1972

Season 1, Episode 4: Whose Little Boy Are You?

Original Air Date—14 October 1972

Season 1, Episode 5: Tower Beyond Tragedy

Original Air Date—28 October 1972

Season 1, Episode 6: Hall of Mirrors

Original Air Date—4 November 1972

Season 1, Episode 7: Timelock

Original Air Date—11 November 1972

Season 1, Episode 8: In the Midst of Strangers

Original Air Date—25 November 1972

Season 1, Episode 9: The Takers

Original Air Date—2 December 1972

Season 1, Episode 10: The Year of the Locusts

Original Air Date—9 December 1972

Season 1, Episode 11: The Bullet

Original Air Date—16 December 1972

Season 1, Episode 12: Bitter Wine

Original Air Date—23 December 1972

Season 1, Episode 13: A Trout in the Milk

Original Air Date—6 January 1973

Season 1, Episode 14: Deathwatch

Original Air Date—13 January 1973

Season 1, Episode 15: Act of Duty

Original Air Date—18 January 1973

Season 1, Episode 16: The Set-Up

Original Air Date—25 January 1973

Season 1, Episode 17: A Collection of Eagles

Original Air Date—1 February 1973

Season 1, Episode 18: A Room with a View

Original Air Date—8 February 1973

Season 1, Episode 19: Deadline

Original Air Date—15 February 1973

Season 1, Episode 20: Trail of the Serpent

Original Air Date—22 February 1973

Season 1, Episode 21: The House on Hyde Street

Original Air Date—1 March 1973

Season 1, Episode 22: Beyond Vengeance

Original Air Date—8 March 1973

Season 1, Episode 23: The Albatross

Original Air Date—15 March 1973

Season 1, Episode 24: Shattered Image

Original Air Date—22 March 1973

Season 1, Episode 25: The Unicorn

Original Air Date—5 April 1973

Season 1, Episode 26: Legion of the Lost

Original Air Date—12 April 1973

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: A Wrongful Death

Original Air Date—13 September 1973

Season 2, Episode 2: Betrayed

Original Air Date—20 September 1973
A young executive stole money from his company, he then robs a bank to replace it. The robbery goes wrong and a security guard is killer and his live in client happens to be working at the bank that day as a part time teller.

Season 2, Episode 3: For the Love of God

Original Air Date—27 September 1973

Season 2, Episode 4: Before I Die

Original Air Date—4 October 1973

Season 2, Episode 5: Going Home

Original Air Date—11 October 1973

Season 2, Episode 6: The Stamp of Death

Original Air Date—18 October 1973
A rich man is murdered over a stamp collection which turns out to be and insurance scam.

Season 2, Episode 7: Harem

Original Air Date—25 October 1973
Stone's has a daughter and she helps him break up a murderous prostitution ring. Darleen Carr, who plays Stone's daughter, Jeannie.

Season 2, Episode 8: No Badge for Benjy

Original Air Date—1 November 1973

Season 2, Episode 9: The Twenty-Four Karat Plague

Original Air Date—8 November 1973

Season 2, Episode 10: Shield of Honor

Original Air Date—15 November 1973

Season 2, Episode 11: The Victims

Original Air Date—29 November 1973

Season 2, Episode 12: The Runaways

Original Air Date—6 December 1973
Three runaways from Oregon, George, Jack and Sharon Morgan are squatting in an abandoned house. Sharon is very sick, but money is very limited. George decided to break into a local pharmacy after hours to obtain some medicine.

Season 2, Episode 13: Winterkill

Original Air Date—13 December 1973
Angered by the rising cost of health care, Wade Tillman decided to rob and steal for his elderly care friends.

Season 2, Episode 14: Most Feared in the Jungle

Original Air Date—20 December 1973
A single girl named Barbara has a baby and is then told the baby was still born. However she thinks it is alive and starts asking questions at the un wed mothers home were she lived.

Season 2, Episode 15: Commitment

Original Air Date—3 January 1974

Season 2, Episode 16: Chapel of the Damned

Original Air Date—17 January 1974

Season 2, Episode 17: Blockade

Original Air Date—24 January 1974

Season 2, Episode 18: Crossfire

Original Air Date—31 January 1974

Season 2, Episode 19: A String of Puppets

Original Air Date—7 February 1974

Season 2, Episode 20: Inferno

Original Air Date—14 February 1974

Season 2, Episode 21: The Hard Breed

Original Air Date—21 February 1974

Season 2, Episode 22: Rampage

Original Air Date—28 February 1974

Season 2, Episode 23: Death and the Favored Few

Original Air Date—14 March 1974

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: One Last Shot

Original Air Date—12 September 1974

Season 3, Episode 2: The Most Deadly Species

Original Air Date—19 September 1974

Season 3, Episode 3: Target: Red

Original Air Date—26 September 1974

Season 3, Episode 4: Mask of Death

Original Air Date—14 March 1974
John Davidson's best acting performance (in the eyes of nearly everyone associated with the show) comes when he plays a nightclub entertainer who dresses up as a famous female torch singer. Unfortunately he is schizophrenic, and becomes her and him -- at the same time. Even worse, "she" is a psychotic killer. Watch for a chilling scene where "he" talks to "her" in a mirror.

Season 3, Episode 5: I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

Original Air Date—10 October 1974

Season 3, Episode 6: One Chance to Live

Original Air Date—17 October 1974

Season 3, Episode 7: Jacob's Boy

Original Air Date—24 October 1974

Season 3, Episode 8: Flags of Terror

Original Air Date—31 October 1974

Season 3, Episode 9: Cry Help!

Original Air Date—7 November 1974

Season 3, Episode 10: For Good or Evil

Original Air Date—14 November 1974

Season 3, Episode 11: Bird of Prey

Original Air Date—21 November 1974

Season 3, Episode 12: License to Kill

Original Air Date—5 December 1974

Season 3, Episode 13: The Twenty-Five Caliber Plague

Original Air Date—12 December 1974
Drama follows a 25-caliber gun over a week-end and the various lives with which it comes into contact.

Season 3, Episode 14: Mister Nobody

Original Air Date—19 December 1974

Season 3, Episode 15: False Witness

Original Air Date—9 January 1975

Season 3, Episode 16: Letters from the Grave

Original Air Date—16 January 1975
The remains of an inmate at the Alcatraz Federal Prison was recently discovered between a wall during some repairs. It was thought that the inmate Lou Kovic escaped, but had been dead for approx 20 years in 1955.

Season 3, Episode 17: Endgame

Original Air Date—23 January 1975

Season 3, Episode 18: Ten Dollar Murder

Original Air Date—30 January 1975

Season 3, Episode 19: The Programming of Charlie Blake

Original Air Date—6 February 1975

Season 3, Episode 20: River of Fear

Original Air Date—13 February 1975

Season 3, Episode 21: Asylum

Original Air Date—20 February 1975

Season 3, Episode 22: Labyrinth

Original Air Date—27 February 1975

Season 3, Episode 23: Solitaire

Original Air Date—13 March 1975

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Poisoned Snow

Original Air Date—11 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 2: The Glass Dart Board

Original Air Date—18 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 3: No Place to Hide

Original Air Date—25 September 1975

Season 4, Episode 4: Men Will Die

Original Air Date—2 October 1975
After Jeannie's friend Nancy kills one of her rapists, Jeannie is furious at the way the justice system works. She becomes involved with an aggressive rape crisis group headed by crusading attorney Catherine Wyatt. Rapist Jack Marlin becomes a target of their efforts.

Season 4, Episode 5: School of Fear

Original Air Date—9 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 6: Deadly Silence

Original Air Date—16 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 7: Murder by Proxy

Original Air Date—23 October 1975

Season 4, Episode 8: Trail of Terror

Original Air Date—30 October 1975
James Woods plays the perfect homely US Navy sailor in dress blues with a bad temper, along with his Navy buddies they are looking for a jeweler that closed his store a few days before they hit town. There course leads to murder, anchors aweigh.

Season 4, Episode 9: Web of Lies

Original Air Date—6 November 1975
Three band members have the perfect racket, a diamond heist. But one guy sees the driver and then makes that known on public TV.

Season 4, Episode 10: Dead Air

Original Air Date—13 November 1975
The murder of a pregnant girl leads Stone and Keller to arrogant radio host Terry Vine, who has a large female fanbase. The dead girl claimed to be pregnant with Vine's baby, giving him a motive for murder, and after her blackmailing roommate also turns up dead, Keller is convinced Vine is the killer.

Season 4, Episode 11: Merchants of Death

Original Air Date—20 November 1975

Season 4, Episode 12: The Cat's Paw

Original Air Date—4 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 13: Spooks for Sale

Original Air Date—11 December 1975
Surveillance is the game here. But a break-in ends up with the night watchman dead of a heart attack. Tom Selleck although not in the opening credits, he plays a major role. During the lunch scene they are eating at Sinbad's Resturant at Pier 2 in San Francisco, which is still there even today. I had my wedding reception there in 1984, great place.

Season 4, Episode 14: Runaway

Original Air Date—18 December 1975

Season 4, Episode 15: Police Buff

Original Air Date—8 January 1976
Bill Bixby places a guy who like to follow the police scanner. He wants to be a cop, but cannot hack it, and ends up taking the law into his own hands. And a good cop gets blamed.

Season 4, Episode 16: The Honorable Profession

Original Air Date—5 August 1976

Season 4, Episode 17: Requiem for Murder

Original Air Date—22 January 1976
A Bishop gets shot after receiving a crank letter.

Season 4, Episode 18: Underground

Original Air Date—29 January 1976

Season 4, Episode 19: Judgment Day

Original Air Date—19 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 20: Clown of Death

Original Air Date—26 February 1976

Season 4, Episode 21: Superstar

Original Air Date—4 March 1976
This pilot for the series "Bert D'Angelo Superstar" (which had started its regular run two weeks earlier, and was a total bomb in the ratings) gives Mira Sorvino's dad a role to match his weight and ego: he plays a New York City detective who comes to San Francisco in search of a back-home cop killer, and decides to stay when the villain is caught.

Season 4, Episode 22: Alien Country

Original Air Date—11 March 1976
A field worker tries to get a job in San Francisco, and he does, but moments later there is a raid by the immigration service and officer is killed.

Season 4, Episode 23: Most Likely to Succeed

Original Air Date—18 March 1976

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: The Thrill Killers: Part 1

Original Air Date—30 September 1976

Season 5, Episode 2: The Thrill Killers: Part 2

Original Air Date—7 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 3: Dead or Alive

Original Air Date—21 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 4: The Drop

Original Air Date—28 October 1976

Season 5, Episode 5: No Minor Vices

Original Air Date—4 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 6: Castle of Fear

Original Air Date—23 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 7: Till Death Do Us Part

Original Air Date—18 November 1976

Season 5, Episode 8: Child of Anger

Original Air Date—2 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 9: Hot Dog

Original Air Date—9 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 10: In Case of Madness

Original Air Date—23 December 1976

Season 5, Episode 11: One Last Trick

Original Air Date—6 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 12: Monkey Is Back

Original Air Date—13 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 13: The Cannibals

Original Air Date—20 January 1977

Season 5, Episode 14: Who Killed Helen French?

Original Air Date—3 February 1977
An abused wife vanishes after a vicious attack by her drunken husband and all clues point to murder with the husband as the prime suspect, but he can't remember if he did it or not.

Season 5, Episode 15: A Good Cop... But

Original Air Date—10 February 1977

Season 5, Episode 16: Hang Tough

Original Air Date—17 February 1977
Eddie Boggs and Stan Michaels are on the scene at an apartment, Eddie is months from retiring. A tip has lead to a dead 15 year old girl OD on heroin. Found nearby was Spider. Boggs has lost it and subsequently beats Spider down. To cover up the situation, Boggs plants a knife on him. A man with a cowboy attire, walks out of the same apartment complex.

Season 5, Episode 17: Innocent No More

Original Air Date—24 February 1977
A juvenile gang has caused a history of trouble for a San Francisco neighborhood. A recent robbery by the gang lead to the death of a victim. Billy Wilson claims his innocence on the whole affair. Evidence mounts and Billy's previous history of violence surfaces, as the judicial systems decides on his fate.

Season 5, Episode 18: Once a Con

Original Air Date—3 March 1977
The last episode to air before ABC turned over much of its Thursday night lineup to spring-tryout series ("Streets of San Francisco" was replaced by "Westside Medical," which lasted 13 weeks; "The Tony Randall Show" was replaced by "Three's Company") is a mystery set on a college campus. While waiting for a bus, a college coed who doubles as a model is slashed with a knife, and one wound goes straight to the heart. A convict (John Rubenstein in his younger days) at San Quentin, who's a student at the same college learning a trade for when he is released, is scheduled to board the same bus. Instead, he runs like hell. The convict is caught soon afterward and assumed to be the killer, but he doesn't seem to have a motive. Stone wonders if one of the woman's fellow students might have had a grudge against her.

Season 5, Episode 19: Interlude

Original Air Date—28 April 1977

Season 5, Episode 20: Dead Lift

Original Air Date—5 May 1977
Ah-nold, long before his movie stardom, made his TV-acting debut as a champion bodybuilder (which he was at the time) visiting San Francisco for a competition. Something (it's not made clear what) has made him incredibly buff and muscled, but has also left him extremely hypersensitive to criticism and with no control over his anger. When he shows off his poses for a young woman, he becomes enraged and unwittingly chokes her to death. He's taken in by a couple and entered into the bodybuilding contest, but broods when he finishes only second. Stone and company suspect him in the death of the woman, and fear he may kill again if provoked.

Season 5, Episode 21: Breakup

Original Air Date—5 May 1977

Season 5, Episode 22: Let's Pretend We're Strangers

Original Air Date—19 May 1977

Season 5, Episode 23: Time Out

Original Air Date—16 June 1977

Season 5, Episode 24: The Canine Collar

Original Air Date—9 June 1977
A cruise ship is docked in San Francisco. A known embezzler is aboard the ship and had hid the jewels on a dog collar.

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